[MPlayer-users] re: Mplayer as a shared library

[Balatoni Denes]

Hi!

After reading that faq it seems that if you write a gpl program, than some 
basic libraries can be linked with your program, the ones that are avilable on
all platoforms your program will run on.

It also seems that static and dynamic linking is the same thing from the 
license's viewpoint.

bye
Denes


> > So in deed, you can not link mplayer with anything else than gpl'd
> > programs.
> >
> > bye
> > Denes
>
> Are you sure that this applies to linking dynamically and statically? I am
> sure this applies to static linking. IANAL but AFAIK it does not apply to
> dynamic linking. What about the Linux games? Afaik they link against
> Xfree86, glibc, OpenGL etc... Or is none of them published under a GPL
> style license?